Escape from the Soviets and return

My Grandfather Stanislaw Joseph Drozdowski was born in 1912 on the family estate outside of Dolina / Dolyna which is itself just west of what is now the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, formerly called Stanisławów in Polish.

His father, Jozef, was a lawyer and a speculator in gold. His mother's name was Helena. They lived in on estate as family were szlachta or minor nobility - had a grand pian…